"Commentary from P.M. Carpenter"

July 11, 2017

Bombshells bursting in air

This is more than one nail in a coffin; it's a corpse being thrown into a mass grave.

"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump," wrote Putin's circuitous intermediary to Donald Trump Jr., who immediately replied: "If it’s what you say I love it."

I say "Putin's intermediary" since he further explained: "The Crown prosecutor of Russia … offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father." Elucidates the Times: "There is no such title as Crown Prosecutor in Russia – the Crown Prosecution Service is a British term – but the equivalent in Russia is the Prosecutor General of Russia. That office is held by Yury Yakovlevich Chaika, a Putin appointee who is known to be close to Ms. Veselnitskaya," whom the presidential candidate's son, Trump Jr., would soon meet, as would the candidate's son-in-law and the candidate's campaign chairman.

Now I ask you: Is it believable — to anyone — that that triumvirate of highest campaign operatives would fail to inform the candidate himself about a meeting pertaining to "sensitive information [that] is part of Russia and its government’s support for" the candidate?

Don Jr. may not rat out his father; nor, perhaps, will the son-in-law. But former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will sell Donald Trump Sr. to the first immunity bidder — and thus he and he alone will be spared being heaved into the mass grave.

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Bombshells bursting in air

This is more than one nail in a coffin; it's a corpse being thrown into a mass grave.

"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump," wrote Putin's circuitous intermediary to Donald Trump Jr., who immediately replied: "If it’s what you say I love it."

I say "Putin's intermediary" since he further explained: "The Crown prosecutor of Russia … offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father." Elucidates the Times: "There is no such title as Crown Prosecutor in Russia – the Crown Prosecution Service is a British term – but the equivalent in Russia is the Prosecutor General of Russia. That office is held by Yury Yakovlevich Chaika, a Putin appointee who is known to be close to Ms. Veselnitskaya," whom the presidential candidate's son, Trump Jr., would soon meet, as would the candidate's son-in-law and the candidate's campaign chairman.

Now I ask you: Is it believable — to anyone — that that triumvirate of highest campaign operatives would fail to inform the candidate himself about a meeting pertaining to "sensitive information [that] is part of Russia and its government’s support for" the candidate?

Don Jr. may not rat out his father; nor, perhaps, will the son-in-law. But former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will sell Donald Trump Sr. to the first immunity bidder — and thus he and he alone will be spared being heaved into the mass grave.